The 4th Peg ezboard Ring is a small group but it has some helpful people in the Parlor Room (discussion board) and a Music Room with Uke tablatures, lyrics and other song resources.http://www.4thpeg.com

This site has links to the Langley Ukulele Ensemble, Island Ukuleles (Victoria), Pacific Ukes (Campbell River), James Hill’s website, and info about the annual BC Ukulele Workshop in Victoria.http://www.bcukulele.org/

This site has a ton of music, and you can set up songs so that they show chords for a C tuned Uke, and you can create your own songbooks. There is a function to transpose chords if they are too hard or if the pitch is too high for your voice. You get to these functions once you click on a particular song.http://www.chordie.com

Jim Beloff does lots to foster a strong community of uke enthusiasts, and his site has a variety of interactive areas for visitors to enjoy. You can add yourself to the Player Directory and find other players in your area or create player groups. Join in a conversation at the Bulletin Board and post messages about any topic. Sell your uke wares or make a purchase in the Marketplace. Get an expert’s answer as Chuck “Frets” Fayne answers your questions regarding vintage ukes on the Collector’s Uke Yak.http://www.fleamarketmusic.com/

This site is run by Barry Maz in Great Britain. It has a world-wide list of uke clubs and a lot of information, including a page with reviews of a lot of ukuleles and ukulele accessories.http://www.gotaukulele.com/

This wonderful uke player is practically local, if you consider Langley local and if you ignore the fact that he now lives in the backwoods of Nova Scotia. This is the official website of Canada’s `ukulele virtuoso’ James Hill. Here you’ll find news updates, audio samples, CD purchasing, photos, calendar, reviews, great links to other performers’ sites, an online press kit and contact information.http://www.ukulelejames.com/

The renowned Langley Ukulele Ensemble, where James Hill grew up, has developed a reputation in Canada and abroad for musical excellence. You can read about the group, check out their calendar, recordings and photos, and get info about their annual September ukulele conference.http://www.langleyukes.com/

Instrument repair and construction. If your uke needs repair or needs to be tuned up to get better sound out, this person comes highly recommended. By appointment only.http://www.nicolealosinacluthiery.com

This site has apparently never heard of the ukulele, but it could be of interest if you’re eager to learn more about music in general. It has interactive tutorials and lessons and charts to explain and coach all aspects of music theory. You can print off custom staff paper. It also has a neat ‘pop-up’ piano keyboard flash player, handy for transposing a song into a different key. You can even download it for offline viewing on either a Windows or Mac OS.http://www.musictheory.net

Check out John King’s Photos and Ukulele Miscellany for old uke photos and recordings. If you’re interested in tablature for a gavotte or a Christmas tune, that’s available too.http://www.nalu-music.com/

Ralph Shaw’s home page. Ralph is our Vancouver Ukulele Circle’s fearless leader and founder, and he’s a well-known performer around town. As well as having lots of fans among the CBC radio crowd, Ralph is also a big name in the teaching and festival circuit. He has performance info and his CDs and DVDs for sale on the site. Ralph has a weekly newsletter called The Ukulele Entertainer: Powerful Pointers to Perk up your Playing. You can subscribe at http://www.ralphshaw.ca/Free_Newsletter .http://www.ralphshaw.ca

Seattle Ukulele Players Association (SUPA) was founded in 2003 to promote fellowship, entertainment, performance and education among ukulele enthusiasts in the Puget Sound region. They already have way more members than we do and they’re a great group and we’re jealous. If you’re going to be in Seattle, check out their site for song circle locations and special events.http://www.seattleukulele.org

Tiki King’s Ukulele School has everything you wanted to know about Ukuleles, but were afraid to ask! Fun facts, songs, tips, charts, a lesson, and more! He says he’ll have you up and playing in minutes.http://www.tikiking.com/uke_stuff.html

Trefor Bazett’s website with mp3s of him playing mostly his compositions and a teaching page with a lot of how-to information, including how to do improvisations, but very hard to read. On a PC with scrolling mouse, try Ctrl+Scroll to increase the font size.http://members.shaw.ca/tbazett/

A site primarily aimed at beginners – it has basic bits of tab, interviews with artists, some reviews of ukes and books, and a tool to help people find chords that sound great together. http://ukulelego.com/

Lots of CDs, videos, books etc available from the museum shop. This non-profit org. was set up to document, preserve and promote the history of the ukulele, its players and makers as well as to inspire and engage people everywhere in the perpetuation of the ukulele and ukulele music.http://www.ukulele.org/

A musician, composer, and music educator in the Seattle, Ukulele Mike has posted several tunes in a very effective lesson format: he gives the key, shows tricky chords or strums, then plays the tune with the words and chords appearing over the video of him playing. He also has some lessons on strumming and finger-picking styles.http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicTeacher2010

The Ukulele Orchestra, really in Great Britain, is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, who use instruments bought with loose change, and who believe that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele. They have two videos and many sound clips to give you an idea of what they’re like.http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/

A website that lists ukulele players and groups from around the world. On the alphabetic listing page, you can click on any listing, and then clicking on the index numbers at the top of the page brings up a search function where you can enter the location you want to search. You can also join and add yourself to the list.http://www.ukulele.nl/player/player_index.php

This site has lessons, chords, an explanation of scales (in the blog) and more, and it offers a ukulele tuner. You select which size instrument in which tuning and then turn on the string you want to tune.http://www.ukuleletricks.com/ukulele-tuner/

Song library and video tutorials, available on a monthly or yearly subscription, with some videos available for no charge, including some visual playalongs, with notations on a fretboard showing the notes being played.http://ukuleleunderground.com/

This was recommended by one of our members, who wrote of the Ukutabs section: “I really enjoy this site and it’s features like auto scroll, being able to adjust the font size and being able to save songs to a favorite’s list.” It also has chord charts, a tuner, a note finder, lots of stuff.http://ukuworld.com/ or http://ukutabs.com